These attacks and compromises are growing in sophistication and frequency, and are proving to be particularly successful against businesses because the majority of past security solutions were designed to detect file-based malware that resided on the disk, not in memory, the report warned.

Whenever users try to leave, the owners of these shady sites trigger the authentification modal in a loop. Every time the user dismisses it, another request is made, and a new modal appears, effectively keeping the user captive on the malicious sites until they close the browser altogether, and are forced to start a new browsing session.

McAfee Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management for Eighth Consecutive Year

“We are proud to be recognized for the eighth consecutive year by Gartner and believe it marks our exceptional performance in enabling effective cybersecurity operations,” said Raja Patel, vice president and general manager of corporate products at McAfee.

Mac Malware Appears on the WatchGuard ‘Top Ten Malware List’ for First Time

It's a good reminder that the vast majority of attacks aren't ultra-advanced zero days and can be prevented by using a layered security approach with advanced malware detection capabilities and investing in secure Wi-Fi and MFA solutions

A bug in Microsoft’s login system made it easy to hijack anyone’s Office account

Once the victim clicks on a specially crafted link sent in an email, for example, the user will log in through Microsoft’s login system using their username and password — and two-factor code, if set up — which creates an account access token to keep the user logged in without having to enter their password again and again.

Recipients of these messages, sent from email addresses which looked similar to legitimate government entities, would be asked to download malicious Microsoft Word files. These documents would then retrieve a malicious macro and request permission from the user to enable macros in order to infect the victim's system.

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